Neil Patrick Harris
Actor
That it all goes away and never comes back.
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
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What happens when we die?
Death & what remains
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What keeps you awake at night?
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’m a real coward about flying. I write loving texts to my nearest and dearest just in case …
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 October 2021 source ↗
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Carrie Fisher
Actor and writer
A bad death . . . fast or slow.
Having no way of earning money.
As an Italian, tinned spaghetti. As a child, I was once served it at someone’s house. It was quite frightening.
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I don’t know, but I am quite happy returning to the universe.
As good enough.
A saint. Then a ballerina.
I’m a bit of a pleaser.
The world we are bequeathing to our children and our children’s children, both climatically and politically.
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